[linux-audio-user] A machine for live gigging?

[David L. Craig]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:29:53PM +0000, Steve Harris wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 03:06:38PM -0600, Richard K. Ingalls wrote:

> > yes, what are the specs for such a machine?
> > CPU?  RAM?  Motherboard?  Sound card (very
> > important, eh)?
> 
> For soundcards RME and M-Audio are youre best bet, avoid USB if you can.
> The processor doesnt really matter, but you probably want something with
> decent floating point performance, so a Pentium 4 or Athlon XP. You want
> 512+ MB of ram.

I don't understand why an SMP configuration is not recommended.  You're
always going to have critical kernel tasks that have got to have cycles
when they need them.  If you have an extra processor or three available
to handle those requests, aren't your applications needs going to be
satisfied better than with a single processor?  Have any benchmarks
been performed to answer this question?

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